SharePoint Log Files

When I look at the Diagnostic Logging, the path for trace log is set to:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\LOGS\

When I look in IIS at the SharePoint web sites, the path for logging is at:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles

I found what was causing the logs, its under the Usage Analysis Processing, so every action made by some user, SharePoint was logging it.

When I look at these log files in X:\LogFiles\SharePoint\B33BDBF2-36CF-42E5-86BC-E8071573E278, here is some of the context.

 


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Any way to only keep 60 days (for example) of log files for Usage Analysis reporting? Just looking to limit the number of log files. We only need 30 days of data.